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Folk Collections
Folk Collections
The Museum's Folk collections have provincial, national and international importance. Ambitiously, the Museum seeks to cover the whole range of the way of life and traditions of ordinary people living in Northern Ireland in both the past and present. As well as housing collections of artefacts, the Museum also has extensive archive collections of visual images, sound recordings, and written documents.
Some of its earliest archive-work was in the fields of language and photography, and the Museum contains extensive folkloric and oral history collections. From its inception, the Museum's collections existed not only to furnish the open-air museum and to display in galleries, but also to provide evidence for those who wanted to investigate the lives of people living in Northern Ireland.
RELATED SECTIONS
- Buildings
- Tour The Folk Museum
- Rural Buildings
- Ballydown National School
- Ballydugan Weavers House
- Ballyveagh Farm
- Coalisland Spade Mill
- Corradreenan Farmhouse
- Coshkib Hill Farm
- Cruckaclady Farmhouse
- Cultra Manor
- Drumnahunshin Farm
- Duncrun Cottiers House
- Gorticashel Flax-scutching Mill
- Hand And Pen Orange Hall
- Lisrace Forge
- Magheragallan Byre Dwelling
- Meenagarragh Cottiers House
- Straid Corn Mill
- Tullylish Bleach Green Watch Tower
- Town Buildings
- Ballinderry House
- Ballyverdaugh National School
- Ballyvollen Houses
- Bairds Printshop
- Catholic Church
- Church Of Ireland
- Cluan Place
- Corner Shop
- Kellys Coal Yard
- Market And Court House
- McCuskers Pub
- Meeting Street
- Northern Bank
- Parochial Hall
- Parochial House
- Post Office
- Presbyterian Meeting House
- RIC Barracks
- Tea Lane
- Temperance Hall
- The Old Rectory
- Weighbridge
- Agriculture
- Community Life
- Crafts And Occupations
- Domestic Life
- Music
- Textiles
